Audacity: Free audio-editing software
Audacity is a great free program for both editing and recording audio files of different types (e.g., MP3, WAV).
Activities for teaching Spanish through music
This website has a list of Spanish-language songs and accompanying activities that teachers have created to teach Spanish through music. Great resource!
Audio Drop Box
Highly recommended!! This free application allows you to add a little audio recorder to any website with which your students can make recordings of their voice (e.g., a speaking assignment). You can then access students' audio recordings in your "drop box" through a free account.
Vocaroo
You can record an audio file and then immediately post it on the web. It is a free service.
Voki
Voki is a free service that allows you to create personalized speaking avatars and use them on your blog, profile, and in email messages
Podcasting
Podcasts are broadcast on a number of different websites. Podcasts are simply audio files that are made available on the web. Some podcasts are created by media outlets such as the BBC, NPR, Radio Nacional Española, Radio France, and Deutsche Welle, but many are also created by smaller organizations and independent folks. Anyone can create and upload a podcast to the web, in any language, with a little bit of technical knowhow. In order to find available podcasts more easily than simple searching in Google, it's recommended that you install a podcast receiver to your computer. The most popular is Apple iTunes which can be downloaded free of charge from here. Another free program that is a podcast receiver is Juice, downloadable from here.
Podcasts may be designed for native speakers of a target language (e.g., Radio France, BBC) or can be educational and intended for language learners. Those podcasts intended for learners are of varying quality and pedagogical value and differ greatly in the extent to which they provide support materials for the audio component. Some sites are commercial, but most offer the actual audio podcasts for free and charge only for the supporting print materials which include grammar, vocabulary, and pronunciation exercises. The following are some popular educational (i.e., non-authentic) podcasts for learning French, German, and Spanish:
Audacity is a great free program for both editing and recording audio files of different types (e.g., MP3, WAV).
Activities for teaching Spanish through music
This website has a list of Spanish-language songs and accompanying activities that teachers have created to teach Spanish through music. Great resource!
Audio Drop Box
Highly recommended!! This free application allows you to add a little audio recorder to any website with which your students can make recordings of their voice (e.g., a speaking assignment). You can then access students' audio recordings in your "drop box" through a free account.
Vocaroo
You can record an audio file and then immediately post it on the web. It is a free service.
Voki
Voki is a free service that allows you to create personalized speaking avatars and use them on your blog, profile, and in email messages
Voxopop
Voxopop is a voice based message board
Freeplaymusic.com
Free music you can download.
Podcasting
Podcasts are broadcast on a number of different websites. Podcasts are simply audio files that are made available on the web. Some podcasts are created by media outlets such as the BBC, NPR, Radio Nacional Española, Radio France, and Deutsche Welle, but many are also created by smaller organizations and independent folks. Anyone can create and upload a podcast to the web, in any language, with a little bit of technical knowhow. In order to find available podcasts more easily than simple searching in Google, it's recommended that you install a podcast receiver to your computer. The most popular is Apple iTunes which can be downloaded free of charge from here. Another free program that is a podcast receiver is Juice, downloadable from here.
Podcasts may be designed for native speakers of a target language (e.g., Radio France, BBC) or can be educational and intended for language learners. Those podcasts intended for learners are of varying quality and pedagogical value and differ greatly in the extent to which they provide support materials for the audio component. Some sites are commercial, but most offer the actual audio podcasts for free and charge only for the supporting print materials which include grammar, vocabulary, and pronunciation exercises. The following are some popular educational (i.e., non-authentic) podcasts for learning French, German, and Spanish:
Top 50 podcasts for learning a FL
Other Sources on the Web for Audio and Video for FL Instruction:
Multilanguage
French
German
Spanish
LAN 321 Student podcast resources (Fall 2014)